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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1984

Tetris, invented by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov, with help from Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov, released into the world.

1971

First space station docking, two years before the American Skylab. Soyuz 11 was guided automatically to 100 m, then hand-docked to the Salyut 1 scientific station. Crew remained in orbit 23 days, but perished in accident on reentry.